“It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.”

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.”

“We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.”

“For I have known them all already,known them all.Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;I know the voices dying with a dying fall,Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume?”

“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,And how, how rare and strange it is, to findIn a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends,(For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!)To find a friend who has these qualities,Who has, and givesThose qualities upon which friendship lives.How much it means that I say this to you-Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!”

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