Edward Albee

To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No_ right up to your nose_ that__ much quieter.

... what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.Martha: Amen.

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep learning the games we play as quickly as I can change them. Who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy. And yes, I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: Sad, sad, sad. Whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: __es, this will do_. Who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving_ me, and must be punished for it. George and Martha_ Sad, sad, sad.

What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.

If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe somebody should be asking you some questions about your values, or about the way you think about things. Maybe you should come out of the theatre, something haven happened to you. Maybe you should be changing, or thinking about changing. But if you just go there, and the only thing you worry about is where you left the damn car, then you wasted a hundred bucks.

If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe somebody should be asking you some questions about your values, or about the way you think about things. Maybe you should come out of the theatre, something having happened to you. Maybe you should be changing, or thinking about changing. But if you just go there, and the only thing you worry about is where you left the damn car, then you wasted a hundred bucks.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.