A play is a passion.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

He that troubleth his own house... shall inherit the wind.

If you’re going to make a musical, don’t cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I’m bored with a play, if I’m revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I’m going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater – why the better it is for all of us.

If the enemy sends it’s Goliath into battle, it magnifies our cause.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn’t sing. It’s an intellectual play.

It’s always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there’s work to do.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that’s burning to be written.