The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

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.

Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.

We were awfully poor. But we had a lot of things that money can't buy . . . like unpaid bills.

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

The best songs are the songs you write that you don't know anything about. They're an escape.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry

There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it.

Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.

In fact, it's even true to say that if you want to have a truly amazing life, relax your entire body.