No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.

People go to the movies instead of moving.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of a great worldwide human effort to know ourselves and each other a great deal better, well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly on right or virtue any more than any man has a corner on duplicity and evil and so forth. If people, and races and nations, would start with that self-manifest truth, then I think that the world could sidestep the sort of corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays as a whole.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?