Edward Albee Quotes

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

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 things. Maybe you should come out of the theatre, something haven happened to you. Maybe you should be changing, or thinking about changing. But if you just go there, and the only thing you worry about is where you left the damn car, then you wasted a hundred bucks.

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

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

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.

... 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.

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