Faith is not only a commitment to the promises of Christ; faith is also a commitment to the demands of Christ.
I want to make the audience laugh and cry within ten seconds, to show just how close those emotions are.
Once after Barefoot In the Park had been playing for about a week I went back to see it, watching the audience, which was just falling over laughing except for one guy sitting the aisle. I was transfixed. I said to myself, there seems to be no way to get to him. No one else would I watch except this one man. My wife joined me about 20 minutes later and asked me how it was going, and I said, terrible. I really meant it. There was no way to get to this man. It destroyed me.
The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Through my college years, topping that ridge had always given me a great sense of being home, but time had diminished the emotion and I had begun to suspect that home was less a place than an empty page.
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.