 My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. |
| I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. |
| A play visibly represents pure existing. |
| Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. |
| 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.' |
| Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. |
| For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? |
| 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. |
| We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. |
| Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. |
| Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. |
| The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. |
| In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. |
| Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. |
| 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. |
| I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. |
| Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. |
