The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

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.

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.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.

Probably the greatest thing working in games is watching someone enjoy your game and to think, "Wow I had a part in giving someone that enjoyment".

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

We give our intent to love and meekness, by the working of mercy and grace we are made all fair and clean.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

Peeta: You be nice to her, Finnick. Or I might try and take her away from you. Finnick: Oh, Peeta. Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.