I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

What are a friend's books for if not to be borrowed?

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.