The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.

The world makes you something that you’re not - but you know inside what you are.

The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.

You have your words, and I have mine.