Memory Inevitably Romanticizes, Pressing Reality

I Know You're No Worse Than Most Men But I Thought You Were Better. I Never Saw You As A Man. I Saw You As My Father.

Cleave To No Faith When Faith Brings Blood.

Those Who Formally Rule Take Their Signals And Commands Not From The Electorate As A Body, But From A Small Group Of Men. This Group Will Be Called The Establishment. It Exists Even Though That Existence Is Stoutly Denied. It Is One Of The Secrets Of The American Social Order... A Second Secret Is The Fact That The Existence Of The Establishment - The Ruling Class - Is Not Supposed To Be Discussed.

Playwriting Is An Oral Art; It's Not An Art Of A Writer Expecting To Be Read But A Writer Expecting To Be Heard.

The Culture Of The United States Has Flooded The World. It's The Inevitable Result Of A Powerful Culture, Art. We've Got An Instinctive Touch When It Comes To The Popular Mind Because We've Had No Aristocracy. It Is A Democratic Country. And We Know Without Knowing It, Without Bothering To Understand It, How To Reach Ordinary People, Sometimes With The Most Vulgar, Worthless Junk On The Face Of The Earth, But We Know How To Do It [laughter].