Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.