I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.