“What after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.”

“No I’m not a dream, I’m your worst nightmare”

“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”

“You teach people how to treat you by what you accept.”

“Every scene should be able to answer three questions: “Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don’t get it? Why now?”

“Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.”

“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”

“Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be.”

“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”

“There’s a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now…”

“When you don’t know where you’re going, you drive on the highway.”

“Smartass Disciple: Master, I don’t need a fairytale.I need you to tell me the truth. Master of Stupidity: It is not funny if you just found it. No drama if no lost at first.”