What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

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.

To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.

I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.

Let your inner DORK shine through.

A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together".

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in a section of town that isn't conducive to violence.

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.

I just loved being around everybody. We just found a rhythm with each other that you want to get on everything you ever do in your life.