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

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.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'