What is essential does not die but clarifies.

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

All excellence is equally difficult.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

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

Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.