“Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.”

I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

Guessing isn’t knowing.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

What part of Canada are you from, honey?” “THE LEFT PART,” said Jay.

Then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn’t have prevented it altogether.

You don’t really develop feelings about a place till you’ve left it. It’s like a girl or a dog.

I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn’t talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man’s left to epitomize!

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.