Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

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 elixir for the vexed human spirit is quiet thinking and contemplation.

Death is not the beginning of an endless deep, dark, silent night but the beginning of a bright, joyful, eternal light.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !

It's really special to be a part of something that's really changing lives.

Big data isn’t about bits, it’s about talent.

All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.