...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

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.

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.

If we want to know what God wants from us as Christians, we must have a firm biblical grasp of His intention in making man in the first place.

To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c'est etre seul).

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

One of the things you do in a band is the more you stay together, the more you play to your strengths.

This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'

Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.