If I were to modernize the script, I would have betrayed [the play's] existence.

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

She wasn't satisfied by the play she saw the following Saturday either. All right. The long lost lover came home just in time t pay the mortgage. What if he had been held up and couldn't make it? The landlord would have to give them thirty days to get out - at least that's how it was in Brooklyn. In that month something might turn up. If it didn't and they had to get out, well, they'd have to make the best of it. The pretty heroine would have to go out peddling papers. The mother would have to do cleaning by the day. But they'd live. You betcha they'd live, thought Francie grimly. It takes a lot of doing to die.