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

In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

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.

The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens rather than from fellow Christians. At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand. To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want.