A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

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.

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.

Valuing other people's time starts with valuing your own.

What were you supposed to say to people you barely knew? That was the kind of thing I needed lessons in - forget algebra and history.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

I would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation.

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

I sometimes call Donald Trump the placebo president. He will talk a big game, but for domestic policy I think change remarkably little.