"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes."

"Love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it gives birth to visions and to great poetry…"

"Many plays — certainly mine — are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."

"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."

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

"Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a del…"

"I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island."

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

"I hold that we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility."

"I am not interested in the ephemeral — such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things t…"