I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

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.

He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that.""Thank you, " she said."As good as a man's, " he added."Oh, now you've spoiled it!

We see answers to prayer all around us.our home, family, children, healing, life, love, are all answers to prayer.

The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow days, music and bright smelling memories.

Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don't really notice what people call me.

I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

I know what it takes to win ball games.

I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty