I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, des…

- Jerome Lawrence

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

- Jerome Lawrence

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

- Jerome Lawrence

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

- Jerome Lawrence

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

- Jerome Lawrence

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

- Jerome Lawrence

The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled …

- Jerome Lawrence

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

- Jerome Lawrence

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

- Jerome Lawrence