I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.