The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

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.

War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.

All deaths, all endings, are a path to the next beginning.

In the far upper corner of my altar is a photo of Joan Crawford in her most fierce Mommy Dearest mode, just to remind me of some of the cost of everyone's hard-earned sweetness and light.

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Sweet Jesus. It was The Delicious in the dark shirt and jeans.

Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors

I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.