Edward Albee

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. ”

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time. ”

My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. ”

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. ”