The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience should feel like an understudy.

All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: "I refuse to be what I am."

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.