The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous...and the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is … - Thornton Wilder

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.

As Plato, the dangerous beguiler, said: the best philosophers in the world are boys with their beards new on their chins; I am a boy again.

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.