The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

And who are the greater criminals-those who sell the instruments of death, or those who buy them and use them?

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

There is no limit to what a person can do that has been inspired by the arts!

Reputation is an invisible force that works for or against you based on the efforts you put to persevere building your character

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.

My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.

I am saying that there is no salvation apart from Jesus; that’s my evangelical mindset. However, I am not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians