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

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

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.

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

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

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

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.