No one but a fool is always right.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

The future of American film lies on television.

[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.