Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

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.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.