I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in a box would you?... Even taking into account the fact that you're dead, it isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off-- I'm going to stuff you in this box now would you rather be alive or dead? Naturally you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all.