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 era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

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

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

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