Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.