Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.

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'm a writer, but I'm not writing to entertain you, I'm writing to keep alive my knowledge.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.

I thrive most when I have to juggle things.

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

You gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes.

Hope is necessary in every condition.