Jerome Lawrence Quotes
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.
Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.
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.
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!
Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.
Why? Because I refuse to erase a man's lifetime? I tell you Brady had the same right as Cates: the right to be wrong!
A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.
When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.
