[to The Critic Who Wrote A Negative

I Have Enemies I've Never Met - That's Fame.

Too Many Of Our Countrymen Rejoice In Stupidity, Look Upon Ignorance As A Badge Of Honor. They Condemn Everything They Don't Understand.

I Did What I Could To Inflate The Rumor I Was On My Way To Stardom. What I Was On My Way To, By Any Mathematical Standards Known To Man, Was Oblivion, By Way Of Obscurity.

Will Tv Kill The Theater? If The Programs I Have Seen, Save For "kukla, Fran And Ollie," The Ball Games And The Fights, Are Any Criterion, The Theater Need Not Wake Up In A Cold Sweat.

Acting Is A Form Of Confession.