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.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

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.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

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

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.