Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

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.

No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.

Where you been, girl?” Harvey answered. “I’ve been sendin’ you twits for the last hour.

If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

Let the questions be the curriculum.

We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.