If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times.

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

I don't direct the plays of others.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.

You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

God gave you a special purpose, do not see yourself as insignificant

My friend is not perfect-no more than I am-and so we suit each other admirable.

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.

Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.

Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Ecstasy hates company.