In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.