Playwright Quotes

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

No one but a fool is always right.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Children always turn to the light.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.