The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.