Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.

Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.