The Most Important Playwright's Gift Is To

An Inability To Handle Language Is Not The Same Thing As Stupidity.

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.

I'm Vey Bad At Marshaling Arguments. I Can't, At A Dinner Party, Explain Why I'm A Socialist And Why Others Should Be Socialists As Well.

I Think The Novel Is The American Form Because People Read It In Private, And The Only Valuable Things That Happen In America Happen In Private Life, Because Public Life Is A Dead Loss.

[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.