If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

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

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.

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