Maybe it has something to do with longing for ... a more articulate society than there is these days. That's part of what people find fascinating, that these people lived by their wits and their words.

Alexander Woollcott did say she (Parker) would be Mrs. Benchley if there wasn't one already. We played that up for the show. You do things you feel could possibly have been true but having not been there, we don't really know.

We had so much trouble along the way convincing people it would work.

[He had] an accent that carried the longing cadence of the exile.

The derivation of a need for religion from the child’s feeling of helplessness and the longing it evokes for a father seems to me incontrovertible, especially since this feeling is not simply carried on from childhood days but is kept alive perpetually by the fear of what the superior power of fate will bring.

When the Guest is being searched for,it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest thatdoes all the work.Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.