A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.