The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

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.

Keep your mind open

The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time.

And cooking is about balance and harmony.

My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.