One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.

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.

Some things were only possible in fairy tales. And not the kind of fairy tales that Baba Yagas featured in

Where magic is the essence of existence and those who wield it, rarely what they seem

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

I love animals. I love being around them.

When you can count your money, you ai'nt got none.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka.