Playwriting gets into your blood and you can’t stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can’t be much good.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.