“Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.”

“NEVER GIVE A INCH!”

“Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.”

“Give an inch, he'll take an ell.”

“One of the interesting things about writing a play is that when you've finished it you have to give it away.”

“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time… give it, give it all, give it now.”

“Kiss a little baby
Give the world a smile
If you take an inch
Give 'em back a mile
Cause if you lie like a rug
And you don't give a damn
You're never gonna be
As happy as a clam
So I'm sitting in a hotel
Trying to write a song
My head is just as empty
As the day is long.”

“Create the conditions for people to criticize the Government, to monitor the government, and at the same time to give full play to the supervisory role of the news media, so that the power to run under sunshine.(”

“Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.”