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

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.