The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he appr…

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

...action restarting action: all we need to reverse inertia is some sense of consequence - some sense that beyond this occurrence there is another, and that th…

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story…