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

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

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

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The future of American film lies on television.

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