The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

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.

Hard work and righteousness are important to God

Every fit has a misfit. Finding your fit is the path rather than fighting to fit.

Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve.

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when we are strong enough to make good our claim on them.

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming.