A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

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.

When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.

You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.

Iran's military hardware is less than a fraction of that of any of the countries in this region.

Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

The future is never clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.