"When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"

"With foxes we must play the fox"

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule"

"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword"

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball"