If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop
A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.
I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery.
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Even the fact that doctors themselves die of the very diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed. We do not shoot out our lips and shake our heads, saying, 'They save others: themselves they cannot save':
As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.