Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

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

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

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.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.