The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

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.

What is done is done for the love of it- or not really done at all.

Sometimes the Lord must bring the bodylow before Raising the Spirit ever higher.

Seeing Oneam undone!Enemy norlo! friend-sans One-is none.That! is "am"One-o-One!

Ultimately, it's my choice and only my choice.

I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.

US Airways made an $8 billion bid for Delta, including $4 billion in cash and $4 billion in lost luggage.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing).