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

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause

Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.