Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

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.

I would not come in.I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

When you meet failure, do you decide on backing up or backing out?. If you decide to fly, you have to back up. You have to rise up when you fall down!

Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

Every 13 seconds in America someone uses a gun - not to kill someone, but to stop a crime.

I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.

A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.