You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times.

I don't direct the plays of others.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.

When you reject knowledge, God rejects you.

When you're looking for a relationship, the process weakens you. you feel you have to bear with whatever the other person wants. Each of the people I have met has made this a little more clear.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it's damaging.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.