I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

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.

Being a real man is less about appearing strong and more about having the courage to influence a change in everyone around you.

Don't judge yourself feeling that you can't solve a problem. Just give your sincere effort and leave the rest

Live each day with ecstatic serenity

There is, you will concede, a limit to the niceties a man is obliged to fulfill when his wife is dead and not yet cold.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free; we felt kind of guilty.

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.