The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

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.

Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.

I can't fathom my love for you, but I know that it makes me want to drown inside of you.

When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.

Life has a practice of living you if you don't live it.

I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.

I have never been a communicant.

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day.