But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.

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.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum

Smart is what you learn from others. Wise is what you learn from yourself.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children.

Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead

There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field ... hear voices.

Our universe is a sea of energy - free, clean energy. It is all out there waiting for us to set sail upon it.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.