All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.