You never do any good until you get into some trouble.

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 enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

Don't be afraid of the dark, it's a place where you can hide.

The greatest threats to Democracy are comfort and apathy.

Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn’t kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth.

Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.

The reward of pain is experience.

Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?

Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

Finally, I have someone that's like me. My other two pupils were the opposite sides of the moon. But this guy is on the same side of the moon, is on the same planet that I'm on.