He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

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.

Shit rolls downhill. Bureaucracy rolls faster.

If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

I think that one of the questions that I asked of myself in later years was to this point of the political directive.

Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of our energy was dedicated to the noble liberation of the human mind and spirit, beginning with my own.

Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.

Schadenfreude is so nutritious.