Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

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.

Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.