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

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

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

Be liked and you will never want.

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.