Eugene O'Neill — American Dramatist born on October 16, 1888, died on November 27, 1953

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama Long Day's Journey Into Night is often numbered on the short list of being among the finest American plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman... (wikipedia)

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.