For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

We must live by the light of our own self-satisfaction, through that secret vital busy inwardness which is even more remarkable than our reason.

One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.