“The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.”

“America is a land where men govern, but women rule.”

“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”

“The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.”

“No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.”

“To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.”

“And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, acco...”

“When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.”

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”