In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.
I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.