PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

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.

Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it.

Not a very pretty world, is it?""Which one?

Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

If you have a regulation that's going to save hundreds of thousands of lives annually and not cost very much, that sounds like a very good idea.

Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.

A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.

Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

Let her see me clearly.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.