Success and failure are equally disastrous.
An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.
I don’t want realism. I want magic!
To be free is to have achieved your life.
Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
I don’t ask for your pity, but just your understanding – no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
We’re left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day’s playtime.
Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.