Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.

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

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

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

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.