You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.