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

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

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.

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!

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