He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

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.

Have you ever met a dragon that couldn't talk?

There is no limit on earnings.

Had I been crested, not cloven, my Lords, you had not treated me thus.

To be human is to care for your fellow human beings and protecting the environment.

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

'What's your favorite position?' 'CEO.'

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

I've always felt running is a form of meditation. Running enables us to stop our lives, to go out and find a safe place for ourselves.

Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.