The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.

I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it 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.