the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

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

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.