I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.

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

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

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.