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

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

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

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.