God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps that's a form of sin you've never considered - the sin of staying in the wrong job. But God did not place you on the earth to waste away your years in labor that does not employ his design or purpose for your life, no matter how much you may be getting paid for it.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

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.