Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.