true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.