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.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

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.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.