I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.