The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

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.

Your energy of love is so powerful that it can heal anything, including your future.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

If we meet somebody who has never made a mistake, lets help them start a religion. Until then, were just going to meet other humans and help to make each other better.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

I'm happier than I've ever been in life. Happy with my life outside of racing. Really happy with my life inside the garage.

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

I think we are making a mistake, a very big mistake if we look at what we call the Arab Awakening only by looking at the whole dynamics in political and not in economic terms.

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.