Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.

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.

The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence. She was kind, but she must have credit for it

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.

As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina.

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.

The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.