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

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

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

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.