A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.

Death ends a life, it does not end a relationship.

The mission of the playwright ... is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

A lot of young writers wait for inspiration. The inspiration only hits you at the desk.

I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.