An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.