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.

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.

But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.

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.

For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

... vulgarity has no nation.