I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

Excellence does not require perfection.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

Ideas are, in truth, force.