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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.
Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.
I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.
How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet.
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.
Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.
I wanted Dexter to have a family that could love him and understand him.
When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.
Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.
They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.
We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.
American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.
All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.
No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.