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. ”