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.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.