A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

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

A play visibly represents pure existing.

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