People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.

How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.

Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.