Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

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

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.

Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.