Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.
I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.