Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.

Be liked and you will never want.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.