As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

I was lucky enough to have the songs in my first show written by George and Ira Gershwin. Then Cole Porter wrote five shows for me

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

Hand holding sword is always an ugly hand!

And every dew-drop paints a bow.

When I get to connect with people, I'm not in my head anymore and I like that, that's nice.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.