The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. A...
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
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.
You never do any good until you get into some trouble.
I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from.
He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.
PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
Be loving to him. Because he’s only a little boat looking for a harbor.
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through the door.
A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
An everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!
The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.