The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable. - W. H. Auden

A million eyes, a million boots in line, Without expression, waiting for a sign.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.