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

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory conduct, frightens her friends into silence by warning: Now, look you; All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters, and that was all. ... Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

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.