learning Quotes

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight.

Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

I wish I could remember how to write a play. I can't remember how they happened.