And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

There are two kinds of climbers... smart ones and dead ones.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

Anyone who doesn't learn from Ian Rush needs shooting.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.