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.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

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

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.