We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.