Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

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.

From the day I began traveling, I understood that truths were lies and lies were truths.

Cool is overrated. Be a geek for what you Love

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

The body is the substance of the stone.

All in all, we might think we like choice, but the question of which choices count and which do not is very, very tricky.

If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?

In any show with a character that you really love, one inclination is to cure them of all their flaws but you remember that you like those flaws.

As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.