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

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.

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.

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.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.