The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.