The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

I'm in favor of sexual encounters.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...