Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

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

We will not think noble because we are not noble. We will not live in beautiful harmony because there is no such thing in this world, nor should there be. We promise only to do our best and to live out our lives. Dear God, that's all we can promise in truth.

If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.

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.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.