Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

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.

Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions.

I know who I am, and that never changes.