on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.