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

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.