The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

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.

Think and imagine the possibilities of your heart's desires. You will attract them to you.

You get all these friends when just when you don't need friends anymore.

Life’s value is lost when the pursuit of money becomes the goal as opposed to the pursuit of true happiness.

To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.

Poetry surprises us with what we already know.

I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.