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

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

Be liked and you will never want.