I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.

Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.