Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody's century, when people all over the world--free people--found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.