Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

Plays...Maidens aspiring to Godheads and vice versa!

The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.