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.

Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

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.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.