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

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.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

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.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

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.