Who said “Many plays — certainly mine — are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their…”?

“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”

“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”

“The last act crowns the play.”

“Play needs direction as well as work.”

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”

“Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”

“Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.”

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”

“It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.”

“The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.”

“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.”