What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.