Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.
If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches
But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.
Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
There's no point in me meeting with a bunch of producers or studios, because I'll write my own scripts in my own time.
I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.
It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see, That though the English are effete They're quite impervious to heat.
Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]
I like to figure out what the production opportunities are for the things I'm interested in before I put pen to paper.
Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
When you're 19 and writing plays, you think every actor is full of it. They just can't handle your brilliant material.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.
Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?
I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York.
I seem to be constantly confronted by theater professionals who are more or less annoyed by the prospect of structure.
I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.
The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.
The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.
A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.
Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.
I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people.
The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.
I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.
If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.