The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

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.

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.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

Time travel..will never be impossible forever.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Garlic bread - it's the future, I've tasted it.

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?