Great Throughts Treasury

"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock."

"Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird."

"We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?"

"We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it."

"We spend our lives talking about this mystery - our life."

"We want life to theater and drama in life."

"When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness."

"When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored."

"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."

"Write with the tip of his heart."

"Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none."

"Writing, it's a way of speaking without being interrupted."

"You must love nature and men despite the mud."