In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.