I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.