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.

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.

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.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

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.