Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.
All excellence is equally difficult.
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
What is essential does not die but clarifies.
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.