The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

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.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

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.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.