Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious b…

I think myself as a fabulist, not a critic. I realize that every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous …