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

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.