Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

She can drive you crazy with that desire to be a perfect athlete.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

The Blonde in the Thunderbird

Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe.

The only important thing a writer needs is a subject. What the reader hungers after is not accomplished craftsmanship nor even correct grammar but a frank report of the things a writer has done, seen, and thought. None of these can be learned in the library or classroom. They have to be learned in the unsheltered world of living where me get slivers of the truth beaten into their heads.