Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.

Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.

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

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

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

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