He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.