The Most Important Playwright's Gift

The Ultimate Tendency Of Civilization Is Towards Barbarism.

I Think The Novel Is The American Form Because People Read It In Private, And The Only Valuable Things That Happen In America Happen In Private Life, Because Public Life Is A Dead Loss.

Obviously Via Dolorosa Is Completely Artificial. It Is As Highly Wrought As Any Of My Plays. But Basically All The Artifice Is To Disguise Itself So You Don't Feel It's There. You're Attempting To Make The Artifice Like A Pane Of Glass That Simply Leads You Through To The Subject - Not To Decorate The Bloody Glass.

Sudden Resolutions, Like The Sudden Rise Of Mercury In A Barometer, Indicate Little Else Than The Variability Of The Weather.

Style Is The Art Of Getting Yourself Out Of The Way, Not Putting Yourself In It.