If the audience is made to do not enough work they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.

In the theater there is often a tension almost a contradiction between the way real people would think and behave and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it in the wide sweep of things men grow wiser as they grow older and societies better.

A stale article if you dip it in a good warm sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.