We’re all of us guinea pigs
in the laboratory of God.
Humanity is just a work in progress.

“Camino Real,” 1953

The world is a funny paper read backwards.
And that way it isn’t so funny.

The Observer, April 7, 1957

Make voyages.
Attempt them.
There’s nothing else.

Time is the longest distance
between two places.

The Glass Menagerie, 1944

Don’t look forward
to the day you stop suffering,
because when it comes
you’ll know you’re dead.

Observer, January 26, 1958

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God.
Humanity is just a work in progress.

Camino Real, 1953

All cruel people describe themselves
as paragons of frankness.

Some mystery should be left
in the revelation of character in a play,
just as a great deal of mystery
is always left in the revelation of character in life,
even in one’s own character to himself.

Camino Real, 1953

It haunts me, the passage of time.
I think time is a merciless thing.
I think life is a process of burning oneself out
and time is the fire that burns you.
But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary.

New York Post, April 30, 1958