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.

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.