When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.

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.'

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

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.