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.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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.

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

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.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.