Who said “Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the…”?

“Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity.”

“There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.”

“I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.”

“'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, and then from hour to hour we rot and rot. and thereby hangs a tale.”

“Old age cannot be cured. An epoch or a civilization cannot be prevented from breathing its last. A natural process that happens to all flesh and all human manifestations cannot be arrested. You can only wring your hands and utter a beautiful swan song.”

“I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.”

“There's always something suspicious about an intellectual on the winning side.”

“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

“Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have -- by disrupting that order -- a way of surprising.”

“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.”