Life isn't long enough for love and art.

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

Writing is the supreme solace.

First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.

The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.