You cant get very far in this world without your dossier being there first.

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.

Man only has eyes to beauty when it costs them the inevitability of losing.

It would be very unwise to beg anyone who abandoned you in the past to come into your beautiful present.

It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy

There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see.

When fighting clowns, always go for the juggler.

I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.

Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.

I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!

One eventually has enough even of oneself.

To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.