Quotes by Edward Albee

“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 t...”

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

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

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

“... 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 c...”

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

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

“In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No right up to your nose thats much quieter.”

“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.”

“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 t...”

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

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

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

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

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

“In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.”

“I have indicated, quite precisely ... by means of commas, periods, semi-colons, dashes and dots ... the speech rhythms. Please observe them carefully, for they were not thrown in, like herbs on a s...”

“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...”

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

“I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.”