Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few people know the history of this country and how we came into being. That's the part that just amazed me.

I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

You can't be a sort of pioneer.

I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee.