If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.