Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.