The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.