I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

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 difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.