The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

Figaro is a bad play. It stirs up hatred between the classes. In France, it has caused nothing but bitterness. My own dear sister,Antoinette, writes me that she is beginning to be frightened of her own people.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.