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

A philosophy can and must be worked out with the greatest rigour and discipline in the details, but can ultimately be founded on nothing but faith: and this is the reason, I suspect, why the novelties in philosophy are only in elaboration, and never in fundamentals.

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

I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

The end is in the beginning.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.