But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

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

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

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

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

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

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.