Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.