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Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.
The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long.
No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.
Most gay bashers will be wearing what gay people had on four years earlier - only in polyester with a Penney's label.
I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.
It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Know not what you know, and see not what you see. [Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris.]
I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
A man who takes pleasure in speaking continuously fools himself in thinking he is not unpleasant to those around him.
There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.
No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
I'm of the school 'Write what you know.' You can educate yourself, but the best writing usually comes from the heart.
You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.
I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.
Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.
Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.
I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.
It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.
It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.
Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.