And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.