PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

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 don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.

I cannot be with someone who takes pleasure in inflicting pain on me, someone who can’t love me.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.

the best committee's a committee of one!

Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.

There is only one way to come out of that dark place, and that is through the power of prayer.