In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

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Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as...

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as...

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.

The dark is light enough.

The dark is light enough.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a...

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a...

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window...

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window...

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if...

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if...

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in...

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in...

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as...

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as...

Life is only what we choose to make it.

Life is only what we choose to make it.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to...

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

My invitation to you is to begin living every moment as though you are miraculous...

My invitation to you is to begin living every moment as though you are miraculous...

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.