Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.