Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.