Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.