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.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

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

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

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.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.