And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.

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.

Our body hears whatever is in our mindsand responds.

The irony of a writer is he/she craves privacy to pen words that crave the public.

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.

We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won't.

The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.