I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.