You speak of justice as if it were a coin in your pocket. Show it to me. If you cannot define it without crumbling, perhaps you were spending a word you had not yet earned.

A good question is a lamp, not a snare. Ask to understand the other person's meaning. If you only ask to win, you will win — and remain unwise.

The unexamined life is not worth living — or so the story goes of my defense. Examination is not self-obsession. It is refusing to sleepwalk through your own choices.

I know that I do not know — and that admission is a kind of strength. Pretended certainty is brittle. Honest uncertainty can learn.

A character wants something. Another force blocks it. Speech becomes action under pressure. If nobody wants anything urgently, you do not have a scene — you have polite weather.

Lovers in my plays ruin themselves by guessing wrongly — jealousy wearing certainty's mask. In affection, ask before you invent a story about the other person. The tragedy is often the assumption.