"The object of Art is to give..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.”

“The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.”

“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!”

“There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.”

“Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.”

“I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.”

“We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.”

“Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.”

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”