Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

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

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

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

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

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

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.