People go to the movies instead of moving.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.