The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.