The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

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.

. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.