Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

Enemies are an indication of character.

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.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

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

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.