In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.