Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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.
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.
A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.