There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Heaven's my destination.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.