He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

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

A play visibly represents pure existing.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

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.

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.

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