... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

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.

There is a mighty force, energy and ability inside us that has not yet been noticed by the world

Nature never remembers, that’s why she’s beautiful.

There are so many random questions in life, but the important ones harldy have a random answer.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

Villains are often attractive.

Much of anyone's game is played (or should be played) in the short six-inch course between the ears.

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.