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

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

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

Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.