“When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over”
“(On literary festivals) When you go and see a band play live, you are watching it do on stage what it is meant to do. When you watch an author perform live, you are, most of the time, watching a dog walk on its hind legs. ”
“Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?”
“One should not put a loaded rifle onto the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.”
“Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.”
“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”