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

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.

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

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

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.

The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.