The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.