There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.