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.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

All excellence is equally difficult.

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.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.