I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.

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.

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

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

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

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!