The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

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

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

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.