The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

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.

all of the oceans& galaxiesdid notconspire together tocreate mejust so i couldreproduce for you.-Startling Fact #1

The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

I like that best as I am so hairy.

I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me.

Twitter is a human seismograph

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

I like bringing smiles to people's faces.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.