Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

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.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist der Liebe gesprochen.

Look at the people around you. Some Inspire you, some Perspire you. Be with those that build Energy in you.

It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

There is a close relationship between the "ha-ha" of humor and the "aha!" of discovery.

I'm like a fine-tuned race car. You've got to make frequent pit stops when you drink as much tea as I do.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

Usury once in control will wreck the nation.