An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.

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

Smiles are the language of love.

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

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.