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

- Brooks Atkinson

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 …

- Brooks Atkinson

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

- Brooks Atkinson

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…

- Brooks Atkinson

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 …

- Brooks Atkinson

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…

- Brooks Atkinson

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

- Brooks Atkinson

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

- Brooks Atkinson

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…

- Brooks Atkinson