It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

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.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Books, the children of the brain.

Falling in love is a series of moments in which the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Those moments are not continuous, but the sense of union with another person is just about the best thing there is.

May God inspire you to have great visions.

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

President Bush said the other day the war is not about timetables. It's about winning. Hey, it worked in Florida.

I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.