One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.

Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough.

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

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.