If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.