The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...
A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.
Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.
Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of epi...
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.