Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

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.

The person who does not meet God’s expectations has no right to expect God’s blessings.

Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president.

Lazy thinking is not creative or productive.

Limp Bizkit Ice Cream would taste like the sweetest pair of panties in the world. It would taste like sushi. Sushi or panties.

He's caused the Chelsea defence no amount of problems.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

I think that social media can be used for good and for bad.

Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.

Being humble doesn't mean you lose; it means you have won. Give the victory to others.