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Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.
Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.
You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.
Americans don’t want drama, especially good drama, they just want their boredom killed.
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.
It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.
Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.
And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.
There are many, many more small theater spaces than there were when I was starting out.
A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne.
If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.
It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.
A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.
There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.