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

The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

The helpless can’t help the helpless.

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.

It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.

Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families

Sometimes I feel like being real and open to them, but at the same time, I know how much I can give you.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.

I’m going to give input when I need to. When it needs to be said.

Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.

Rather, love is a way of being, a “giving to,” not a ‘falling for”; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.

People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.

I’m very educated and can give you somewhat of a vocabulary, but I don’t get to the philosophical side.