Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

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.

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

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.