Edward Albee

I am not a homosexual playwright. I am a playwright who happens to be homosexual.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way to come a short distance correctly.

Truth and illusion. You can't have one without the other.

I think I'm a pretty good playwright. I'm not a great playwright. I'm a pretty good playwright.

The only way to have a good play is to have a good play.

We all have our little rituals, our little games, our little lies. They keep us sane.

A play is a statement about life, not a slice of life.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I write to find out what I think.

The theatre is a place where one goes to see the truth about life and the social situation.

I don't write for audiences. I write for myself.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

The play is a metaphor for the human condition.

I don't believe in happy endings. I believe in endings.

The purpose of art is to make people uncomfortable.

The only way to get through life is to laugh at it.

All serious art is a sort of confession, however disguised.

I write because I have to. It's a compulsion.