On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

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

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.