Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

The salvation of the world lies in the human heart.