Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.