Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.