For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.