The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

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.

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

I don't want to leave.

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

I believe in my sacred soul.

Fidel Castro declared that a robot would do a better job as president than Barack Obama. After hearing this, Mitt Romney thanked Castro for his endorsement.

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

If women could sleep their way to the top, there'd be a lot more women at the top.

A bullfighter must have courage, skill, and grace. And of these courage is the most important.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.