The Ultimate Tendency Of Civilization

[via Dolorosa]'s Pushing Broadway As Far As It Can Be Pushed. I Stand Before You As A Reporter, And You Have To Decide Whether I'm An Honest Reporter Or Not. And If You're Convinced That I Am Honest, Then I Think That You Will Listen To Me In A Way That You Wouldn't Have Listened To A Fiction Where Scenes Are Made. . . . I've Thought Quite Long And Hard About What I Want To Say In This Play. And If It Means That Every Single Sentiment That I Produce Is Put Minutely Under An Ideological Microscope, That's Fine.

Via Dolorosa Is The Only Thing I Have Ever Acted In My Life, Professionally, And Ill Never Act Again.

What Politicians Want And What Creative Writers Want Will Always Be Profoundly Different, Because I'm Afraid All Politicians, Of Whatever Hue, Want Propaganda, And Writers Want The Truth, And They're Not Compatible.

I Have A Very, Very Good Relationship With 10 Percent Of The Audience. The Only Purpose Of Art Is Intimacy. That's The Only Point.

I Fell Into Writing Plays By Accident. But The Reason I Write Plays Is That It's The Only Thing I'm Any Good At.