We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour so….

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting ….

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams o….

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow i….

It seems to me that the thing that makes the theater worthwhile is the fact that it attracts so many people with ideas who are constantly trying to s….

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living..

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town..

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make ….

The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been….

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy..

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It ….

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking..

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit..

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go..

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers..

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind mos….

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one..

There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound..

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge..

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance..

We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots..