Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

The mountain violets break the rocks.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

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.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.