You can never know enough about your characters

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.

The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.