You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

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.

Truth has sharp teeth, so do not expect anything beautiful (to see) when it smiles to you.

Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

There's different levels of where we do well throughout Europe. Fortunately, for us, it's pretty great all throughout it.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.