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

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens rather than from fellow Christians. At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand. To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.