That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

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.

Politics is shit

No pressure, Jack. All we need is a miracle.

So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

It is absolutely imperative that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic heritage for man and every other living thing in as good a condition as we received it.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

The truth is, the world isn't easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.

You can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong hugong, ching chong kong, Danny Devito. Ching chong chong chong chong. The View. Ching chong!