Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

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.

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

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

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.

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.

Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, "All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy and the charm of distance. Madam, you may vote but at a price. You lose the right to retreat behind the powder puff or your petticoat. Mister, you may conquer the air but the birds will lose their wonder and the clouds will smell of gasoline."