Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

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…

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winn…