We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction there. When things go well in production, on opening there's no nicer feeling in the world-what could be nicer than watching an audience respond? You can't that from a book. It's a fine feeling to walk into the theater and see living people respond to something you've done.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.