In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
Never cut what you can untie.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
In really good acting we should be able to believe that what we hear and see is of our own imagining; it should seem to be to us as a charming dream.