The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.