I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.
Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
I think true atheism is a rare thing in human affairs: Even in the most secularized precincts of Europe, a lot of nominal nonbelievers turn out to have all sorts of supernatural and metaphysical beliefs.
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and even the power to be.
Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.
Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
We live in this miraculous technological environment, and yet our human behaviour is still governed by basic impulses from prehistoric times.
When I was tiny, I was a real observer of human behaviour, and I knew I wanted to tell the human story, but I felt shy and unattractive and awkward.
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
