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.

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.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

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

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

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.