I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.

PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.