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

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

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.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.