"Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence."

"The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not t…"

"A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages"

"In memory everything seems to happen to music."

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

"When I look back at Stairs to the Roof... I see its faults very plainly, as plainly as you may see them, but still I …"

"I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream."

"Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense."

"The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to …"

"I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding—not even that—no. Just for your recognition of…"