We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.

We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.