Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.
Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.