Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.