[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.