The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the im….

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater..

My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living….

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is….

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never wel….

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed..

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses..

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather..

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness..

Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million..

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than ….

One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence..

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task..

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts..

If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and keep your eyes peeled..

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself..

The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live..

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts..

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull..

I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take ca….

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered….