The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

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