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.

I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.