There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject, may be outweighed in a poem, a novel, or a picture, by charm of manner, by ingenuity of execution; but in a drama the subject is of the essence of the work-it is the work. If it is feeble, the work can have no force; if it is shapeless, the work must be amorphous.

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.