If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

I'm too mature to be angry.

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

It's easier to believe in yourself after someone else has believed in you first.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution.

I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.