 A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. |
| Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? |
| You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you. |
| I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult. |
| The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. |
| Without alienation, there can be no politics. |
| He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world. |
| I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door. |
| I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self. |
| A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. |
| Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. |
| 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. |
| If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that. |
| I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. |
| The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. |
| Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. |
| What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. |
| It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? |
| I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. |
| A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for! |
