Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of a great worldwide human effort to know ourselves and each other a great deal better, well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly on right or virtue any more than any man has a corner on duplicity and evil and so forth. If people, and races and nations, would start with that self-manifest truth, then I think that the world could sidestep the sort of corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays as a whole.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

The helpless can't help the helpless.

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.