For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

I want to be all used up when I die.

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.