I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.