I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.