Edward Albee Quotes

You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.

we must have that put in Latin — We do what we can — on

"You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?"
What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

You want to dance with me, angel tits?

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

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

Awww, 'tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads.

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

Yes … but was I happy? Did I sit there and did contentment bathe me in its warm light?

It was like being lost: very young again, with the dark, and lost. There was no . . . thing . . . to be . . . frightened of, but . . .
We were frightened . . . And there was nothing.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

You became the youngest person ever to win the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s version of the Nobel.

"That's what happens in plays, yes? The shit hits the fan." — Edward Albee

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 having 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.

You're in a straight line, buddy-boy, and it doesn't lead anywhere.....except maybe the grave.