[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.