I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.

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.

To fill your heart with love, just love an innocent animal.

Understanding moulds the life of a man and governs it.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.