As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear