I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.