Conflict is the very essence of life.

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

there is no truly honest autobiography.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.