In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

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.

Figuring out what you want out of life is hard. Having the courage to full fill it, is even harder.

accept yourself, it will inspire others to do the same for themselves.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

Public service is my motto.

I don't just like to have 1 take, but not too many. I think it is good to keep it alive.

Part of my success was having a place to play as a kid.

People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.

Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase.

As other authors have realized, heat can have a strange effect on us, can cause odd chemical reactions in the brain. Heat can bring out secrets; it can change people's personalities.

Life isn't about living without problems. Life is about solving problems.