... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?

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.

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

His mind is like that. On the inside, where he never smiles.

There is nothing quite so comforting like being part of a community.

Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative.

While I was gone, I had quintuple bypass surgery on my heart. Plus, I got a haircut.

My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.

I'm an average citizen and always have been.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.