... vulgarity has no nation.

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.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

I couldn't imagine not playing basketball. To me, basketball is what life is all about.

We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into.

Everything in the least connected with him has value for me; if someone even mentions his name it is like a little present to me-and I long to mention it myself

I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.

But there is no doubt that my own views on this are, in quite a number of ways, very different from those of Quine.

The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.