You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way.

The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.