Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.

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

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

Suicide kills two people.

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

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.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.