All experience helps when you write.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.