The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

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

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.