The world is a zoo.
If you’re willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
I created myself, and I’ll attack anybody I feel like.
What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.
A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it.
The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
All 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.
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that’s what I like about you most. Your anger.
The 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.
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
Art has an obligation to offend.
A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.
You’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?
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.