Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

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.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

If you're buying an album because of the face on it, you're stupid.

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same

The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

We are masters, first, of our attitudes. Our attitudes shape our future. This is a universal law.