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.

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.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

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

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.

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.

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