Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

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.

It is often only in our trials that we become aware that our courage or patience or faith could use some polish.

Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

[We need to] protect copyright at all costs. Don't do cheap deals with Google and these other cyber-monsters. Recognize that the creative artist has to be maintained.

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart.

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.