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It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.
You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.
I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.
The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.
The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever.
Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.
When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.
Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.
We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.
I fell into the theatre because I felt I was doing it well, and I stuck to it for the same reason.
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
I wish we could all have good luck, all the time! I wish we had wings! I wish rain water was beer!
I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.