You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the work of stage managers, directors and producers, but the only people who can communicate theater magic to audiences, through ideas and emotions, are the actors. They are the only ones who can communicate this by themselves, and if necessary, they can get along without you. But you can't make theater without the actor.

It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.