My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
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He's liked, but he's not well liked.
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The jungle is dark but full of diamonds...
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I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
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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 approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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