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

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

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.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

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