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.

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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

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

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

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!

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

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

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures...

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures...

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son....

He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son....

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after...

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to...

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I...

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have...

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have...

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the...

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the...

I had a dream and it was fulfilled by meeting with Benny, Bjsrn and Agnetha.

I had a dream and it was fulfilled by meeting with Benny, Bjsrn and Agnetha.

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is...

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is...

When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver...

When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver...