Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE

One dead and one alone. That's how the story ends.

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

I like to think I'm just talkin' in my defense.

My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.

I do my best; I put out things I believe in and if you don't like it then pass on to something else.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.