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.

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.

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

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

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 am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?