Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

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.'

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.