All experience helps when you write.

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.

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.

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

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.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.