Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you. You’re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

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.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life