A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Be liked and you will never want.

The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

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.

Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.