Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.