The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

You either care or you don’t.

Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.