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.

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.

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

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.

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 aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

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