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

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.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

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

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

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.

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.