Good Plays Drive Bad Playgoers Crazy.

Materialism Is Decadent And Degenerate Only If The Spirit Of The Nation Has Withered And If Individual People Are So Unimaginative That They Wallow In It.

In The 1920s Dramatists Attacked Their Subjects As If The Inequities Could Be Resolved. Some Of The Traditional Optimism Of America Lurked Behind Most Of The Early Plays. But Not Now. There Is No Conviction Now That The Problem Will Be Solved.

Everyone In Daily Life Carries Such A Heavy Mixed Burden On His Own Conscience That He Is Reluctant To Penalize Those Who Have Been Caught.

Life Is Seldom As Unendurable As, To Judge By The Facts, It Logically Ought To Be.

The Humorous Man Recognizes That Absolute Purity, Absolute Justice, Absolute Logic And Perfection Are Beyond Human Achievement And That Men Have Been Able To Live Happily For Thousands Of Years In A State Of Genial Frailty.