A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

To refresh our lives, let us forget and forgive and begin anew.

Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go.

Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

Congratulations to Donald Trump, the new president of the United States - and to the people of America, who are free.

I am not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. I only use Twitter, which I wish I didn't.

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

Anytime you adopt a new system you change work flow and so people have to change, to some degree change the way in which they do things.