Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

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.

The best way to transform a society is to empower the women of that society.

Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star.

I don't fear what hides in the darkness. I fear what hides in the light.

My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.

I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.

Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

It's never too early for ice cream.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.