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

Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

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.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

All experience helps when you write.

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.