It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you.

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.