That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

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