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

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN

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.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.