Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Drama is based on the Mistake.