I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

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.

Never settle for half the story, and make-up and imagine the rest. Get the full Story!

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

There are so many common occurrences in raising children that people just can't seem to figure out.

Get rich or die tryin'.

People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.

It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?

I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.