Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

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

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

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

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.