Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.