Edward Albee

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

“Never marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.”

“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’s much quieter.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.”

“... 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.”

“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: “Yes, 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 people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.”

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