It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Everything that is popular is wrong.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

And if it feels good... Feel it!