Quote of the Day (David Mamet, on the Agony of Flopping)

“There’s nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won’t ring from room service; your mother won’t be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you’re dead.”—Playwright David Mamet quoted in Andrew Goldman, “Always Be Changing: David Mamet Explains His Intellectual Shift to the Right. The Far Right,” The New York Times Magazine, May 29, 2011