In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.