The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

Good poets borrow, great poets steal

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.