I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

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.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.

Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy and strong families.

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.

Nothin’s real scary except in books.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time - and position your business to reap the benefits of good customer service.