I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
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.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
A play visibly represents pure existing.