"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."

"[F]rom the late 1580s the Elizabethan theater was full of Turks, Moors, Persians, and Saracens. Between 1579 and 1624…"

"We [Christians] renounce all your spectacles, as strongly as we renounce the matters originating them, which we know …"

"Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture."

"A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth."

"If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience."

"It was with some such ideas in mind that I started on this play. Or else they developed as I wrote it. Or else I have…"

"The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich."

"All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players / They have their exits and their entrances / And …"

"A playwright is a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form."