The brain heals the past like an injury.

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.

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

Regrets never sit well, with those that never forget.

Bolt put the Mobot on the map, to be honest with you! He's just an amazing guy.

Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.

She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.

We're just very much a plain-vanilla, long-only investment fund.