Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.

Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of a great worldwide human effort to know ourselves and each other a great deal better, well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly on right or virtue any more than any man has a corner on duplicity and evil and so forth. If people, and races and nations, would start with that self-manifest truth, then I think that the world could sidestep the sort of corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays as a whole.