We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.