A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quickly than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
—Moss Hart
Topics: Humor
So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o’clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.
—Moss Hart
Topics: Audiences
Boredom is the keynote of poverty—of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with—for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.
—Moss Hart
Topics: Boredom
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Neil Simon American Playwright
William Saroyan American Playwright, Novelist
Edward Albee American Playwright
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William Goldman Hollywood Screenwriter
Howard Zinn American Historian, Activist
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Eugene O’Neill American Playwright
August Wilson American Playwright
Lionel Trilling American Critic