That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

Every time I am reading actors I can pretty well tell which ones have studied with Meisner. It is because they are honest and simple and don't lay on complications that aren't necessary.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

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

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.