Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

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

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.

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.

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.