Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
If I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
The car, the furniture, the wife, the children – everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is – shopping.
When the guns roar, the arts die.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.
Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within.
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
If you analyse anything, you destroy it.
The world is an oyster but you don’t crack it open on a mattress.
Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.