Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.