In Oratory The Will Must Predominate.

One Of The Things I Find About Getting Older Is That I Seem To Get Louder, More Voluble; That I Constantly Have To Walk Around Repressing My Vitality.

As You Write Plays, You Discover What You Believe. And Until You Know What You Believe, You Can't Write A Play.

To Those Whose God Is Honor; Only Disgrace Is A Sin.

[via Dolorosa]'s Pushing Broadway As Far As It Can Be Pushed. I Stand Before You As A Reporter, And You Have To Decide Whether I'm An Honest Reporter Or Not. And If You're Convinced That I Am Honest, Then I Think That You Will Listen To Me In A Way That You Wouldn't Have Listened To A Fiction Where Scenes Are Made. . . . I've Thought Quite Long And Hard About What I Want To Say In This Play. And If It Means That Every Single Sentiment That I Produce Is Put Minutely Under An Ideological Microscope, That's Fine.

Obviously Via Dolorosa Is Completely Artificial. It Is As Highly Wrought As Any Of My Plays. But Basically All The Artifice Is To Disguise Itself So You Don't Feel It's There. You're Attempting To Make The Artifice Like A Pane Of Glass That Simply Leads You Through To The Subject - Not To Decorate The Bloody Glass.