A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

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 no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.

I work hard. I like to practice. I like to win. I want to be the best.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

I get crazy upset when I feel mothers or babies are not getting the loving care they need.

Flaws are awesome - so, flawsome! I love making up a word.