It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

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

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.