Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.

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.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable.

Friendship is far more delicate than love.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

She glared at him. "I'm not asking you to apologize." "Well, that's a relief.I doubt I could find the words.

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.

You both sicken me. (Markus) It’s what I live for…Father. Your eternal disgust succors me like mother’s milk. (Fang)