Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.