Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

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.

How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.

I want to reach the top with it all--business, family and faith!

One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.

Don’t even try to count all the colors of spring. God’s pallet keeps generating new hues.

I'm happy to be making my first appearance on air professionally. By that I mean I'm finally getting paid, which I know will be a great relief to my creditors.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

There is one thing about knowing history, and another in recreating it.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair