Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.