There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.

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 gave you up and died a little each day

I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission.

I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

I'm older than I was before when I was young.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

It's not a British attitude to dedicate yourself to such an extent as he [Wilkinson] does... He is such a dedicated so-and-so who only thinks about booting it over the posts

This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women.

According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.

It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.