If a dog doesnt put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesnt happen you are only keeping an animal. – Enid Bagnold
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. – Enid Bagnold
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. – Enid Bagnold
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. – Enid Bagnold
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesnt eradicate the reality of the suffering. Its all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. – George Saunders