“ It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and… Eugene O'Neill
“ Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. Eugene O'Neill
“ One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. Eugene O'Neill
“ I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. Eugene O'Neill
“ Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. Eugene O'Neill
“ The only living life is in the past and future-the present is an interlude- strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living. Eugene O'Neill
“ The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases. Eugene O'Neill
“ Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on… Eugene O'Neill
“ To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the… Eugene O'Neill
“ Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle. Eugene O'Neill
“ He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And y… Eugene O'Neill
“ Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it. Eugene O'Neill
“ On my solemn oath, Edmund, I'd gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in the bank, I'd be willing to have no home but the poorhouse in my old age, if I could look back now… Eugene O'Neill
“ Now look here, Smithers. They's two kind's of stealing. They's the small kind, like what you does, and the big kind, like I does. Fo' de small stealing dey put you in jail soon or late. But fo' de big… Eugene O'Neill
