Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the verbs.

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.

I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).