By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

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.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.