I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

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

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.