It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

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.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

A friend of everyone is a friend of no one

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

Whichever you do, you will repent it.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

Teamwork is not a preference, it is a requirement.

Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!