A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
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An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
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For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.
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I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for...
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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
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Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
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Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being; the words are rising to their lips in immediate spontaneity The theater is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are."
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
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