There are only two things to write about: life and death.
EDWARD ALBEEThere are only two things to write about: life and death.
EDWARD ALBEEMartha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
EDWARD ALBEEAll serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don’t want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don’t think art should be escapist. That’s a waste of time.
EDWARD ALBEEAudiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
EDWARD ALBEEWho’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
EDWARD ALBEEA writer is a controlled schizophrenic.
EDWARD ALBEEYou’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?
EDWARD ALBEESometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
EDWARD ALBEEThe only time I’ll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
EDWARD ALBEEAmerican critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
EDWARD ALBEEWhen people don’t like the way a play ends, they’re likely to blame the play.
EDWARD ALBEEMusical beds is the faculty sport around here.
EDWARD ALBEEI don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
EDWARD ALBEEThe most profound indication of social malignancy no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
EDWARD ALBEEThe act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area… the performance of the work one creates.
EDWARD ALBEEThe act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
EDWARD ALBEE