A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

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.

Nothing is ever black and white, Nila. You should know that bu now. Its all how you survive the grey." -Kes

It's pointless to hate anything. Just trick your conscience by pretending you like something and soon enough you will.

True friendships are life-saving bridges over troubled waters.

The underground is not a place but a way of life. You can be underground most anywhere, from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Hermosa Beach, California.

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day.

It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

My people's greatest need is my personal holiness

So often you're asked to play impossibly perfect version of yourself on screen that it's nice to get to bring in those parts that you think aren't as worth looking at.