I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders.
Death with honor is better than life. . . life with dishonor.
This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.
We are all prisoners of our time and place.
I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.
. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.
To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.
A lot of people have told me real New Yorkers are Mets fans
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. . . . It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.
Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.