He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

May your swords stay sharp -Brom

I always kept myself fairly fit.

Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.

It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.