Without alienation, there can be no politics.

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.

He smelled the salt on his own lips and the orange blossoms in her hair. Real ones, he could see now, tucked into the curls with cheap, native combs. The sight of them gave him hope.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

Life is great and golf has been one of the great parts of it for me.

Life at its essence boils down to one day at a time. Today is the day!

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

I realized that making music can help me to convey my feelings, and if it can relieve me, maybe it can help someone else?

It's not a fun process. There is no need for the team and a player to be on opposing sides a week or two before spring training. It's good to be on the same page.

I've always been a teaser, even as a kid.

There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn of mind, but I also like to test things in place.

For Christmas one year I bought my son a BB gun. He bought me a t-shirt with a bulls eye on the back.