A Sharp Sense Of The Ironic Can

Charity In The Theater Begins And Ends With Those Who Have A Play Opening Within A Week Of One's Own.

Boredom Is The Keynote Of Poverty - Of All Its Indignities, It Is Perhaps The Hardest Of All To Live With - For Where There Is No Money There Is No Change Of Any Kind.

Other Centuries Had Their Driving Forces. What Will Ours Have Been When Men Look Far Back To It One Day? Maybe It Won't Be The American Century, After All. Or The Russian Century Or The Atomic Century. Wouldn't It Be Wonderful, Phil, If It Turned Out To Be Everybody's Century, When People All Over The World--free People--found A Way To Live Together? I'd Like To Be Around To See Some Of That, Even The Beginning.

I Have Always Understood The Unbelieving Look In The Eyes Of Those Whom Success Touches Early - It Is A Look Half Fearful, As Though The Dream Were Still In The Process Of Being Dreamed And To Move Or To Speak Would Shatter It.

Charity In The Theatre Usually Begins And Ends With People Who Have A Play Opening The Week Following One's Own. Their Unlikely Benevolence Is Not So Much A Purity Of Heart As The Knowledge That They Face A Firing Line With Rifles Aimed In Exactly The Same Direction.