All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

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.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.