The devil isn't made by what Mommy says or what Daddy says. The devil is there.

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.

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.

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.

The actual secret to success: Be a better friend today than you were yesterday.

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.

So God made girls... God made girls... He stood back and told the boys, I'm 'bout to rock your world.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights.

Court each other forever.