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.

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.

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.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

No one on any plane of existence is infallible or knows everything we need to know.

You can't sit on two chairs at once.

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

Maybe not as an idol, but I have influenced some people, including my son Joshua. So that feels good. Wherever I play musicians come to meet me, that is a great compliment to me. I am honored.

There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.