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.

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

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.

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

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