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.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

Death is the ultimate negative.

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