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

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

[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.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

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

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.