The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.

I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

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.

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.

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.

All experience helps when you write.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

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.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.