Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.