Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.