Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.