Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.

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

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

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