Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.

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.

I overcome the fear of losing.I overcome the fear of changing.I let go of what is going.I allow what is coming.

Storytelling is in our DNA. It's what differentiates humans from other species: we don't just communicate information. We tell stories.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

As a singer, you need to find you water that works for you.

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.

I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it'll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself.

A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.