Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

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.

Science & Love have progressed "either" ways with growth of violence!

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver. The asthmatic drug-addict, I function with it

Pamela Anderson is a great dancer considering she can't see her feet.

The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.

I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

There's a level of trust that you have to have with somebody.

Verbal ability is a highly overrated thing in a guy, and it's our pathetic need for it that gets us into so much trouble.

Most liars can fool most people most of the time.

You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.