Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of 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.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.