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.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

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

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit