The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can’t like it.
I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether...
In the sixties, the Commune emerged as a riposte to the nuclear family. This was an autonomic re-creation of not only preindustrial, but pre-agrarian life; it was the Return to Nature, but the Commune...
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
My generation has a giddy delight in dissolution. [...] To inspire theunsophisticated young to demand change is an easy and a cheap trick— it was the tactic of the Communist Internationale in the thir...
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism. It later occurred to me that his plays were copyrighted, and t...
Superman comics are a fable, not of strength, but of disintegration. They appeal to the preadolescent, (sic) mind not because they reiterate grandiose delusions, but because they reiterate a very deep...
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten mysel...
My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor la...
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a f...
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people...
We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?
The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.
If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can't go back.
We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession no...