After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

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.

Globally, our soul lessons have become more frequent and intense as we are called to evolve.

Overcast does not always forecast rain neither does difficulty always forecast failure.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

Sowing and reaping is a spiritual law...Sow generously and you will reap generously.

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.