I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.