It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit.
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
Pop, I’m nothing! I’m nothing, Pop. Can’t you understand that? There’s no spite in it any more. I’m just what I am, that’s all.
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.
They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.
If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.
More Weight -Giles Corey-.