In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.