Edward Albee

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

Never marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

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.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.

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

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

That's all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that's all that's important; a sense of dignity. And it doesn't matter if you don't care or not, either. You got to have a sense of dignity, even if you don't care, 'cause, if you don't have that, civilization's doomed.