That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.