Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.