The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

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

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

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

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.