If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.