When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

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.

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.

My dad's more three-dimensional than Opie Taylor or Richie Cunningham. He even has a temper! He's a real person. But some people are disappointed by that.

Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.

farewell' is a monster among words, and never yet sounded kindly in any ear.

Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.