Success, instead of giving freedom ofchoice, becomes a way of life.

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.

Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang on to it. You must not let yourself be waylaid and have it taken from you.

Don’t try to search out a better profile to start with your work but you should start your work for create a better profile.

You don't know what you don't know. That's why you don't have. Because to know and not to have is not to know.

I regret it is not possible to marry by post.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

"Angel" means messenger of God. But angels are nondenominational. The word "God" sometimes implies a Judeo-Christian orientation, yet angels are universal and ancient archetypes.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.