“A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can’t live that way you don’t stay.”

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you coming through some door.

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

I’m the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn’t very difficult.

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.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

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.

There are always various issues in the world, but Japan will contribute to solving them under the banner of proactive pacifism.

Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself.

Russia’s big owo.

You have it in your control to determine what this country’s gonna look like the next four years.

We will bring together the strengths of the Self-Defense Forces and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to further accelerate the enlightenment work toward road restoration as soon as possible.

We are trying to urge North Korea to abandon their nuclear development program.

We’ll get our nation back to work, and we will build our glorious future with American hands and American grit and American pride!

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.