The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

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.

The real battlefield is the realm of ideas.

What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Time is so...fluid where I live

You might be a redneck if your 'huntin dog' cost more than the truck you drive him around in.