Playwriting, Like Begging In India, Is An

A Too Constant Preoccupation With Money May Seem To Indicate The Lack Of A Proper Sense Of Moral Values, But [let] Those Who Have Always Had Money . . . Be Without It For A While, And They Will Soon Discover How Quickly It Becomes Their Chief Concern.

Other Centuries Had Their Driving Forces. What Will Ours Have Been When Men Look Far Back To It One Day? Maybe It Won't Be The American Century, After All. Or The Russian Century Or The Atomic Century. Wouldn't It Be Wonderful, Phil, If It Turned Out To Be Everybody's Century, When People All Over The World--free People--found A Way To Live Together? I'd Like To Be Around To See Some Of That, Even The Beginning.

Charity In The Theatre Usually Begins And Ends With People Who Have A Play Opening The Week Following One's Own. Their Unlikely Benevolence Is Not So Much A Purity Of Heart As The Knowledge That They Face A Firing Line With Rifles Aimed In Exactly The Same Direction.

Boredom Is The Keynote Of Poverty - Of All Its Indignities, It Is Perhaps The Hardest Of All To Live With - For Where There Is No Money There Is No Change Of Any Kind.

All The Mistakes I Ever Made Were When I Wanted To Say 'no' And Said 'yes'.