Edward Albee Quotes

Now, here is what I had wanted to happen: I had tried to love, and I had tried to kill, and both had been unsuccessful by themselves.

A play is fiction — and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

The Theatre of the Absurd, in the sense that it is truly the contemporary theatre, facing as it does man's condition as it is, is the Realistic theatre of our time; and that the supposed Realistic theatre — the term used here to mean most of what is done on Broadway — in the sense that it panders to the public need for self-congratulation and reassurance and presents a false picture of ourselves to ourselves is … really and truly The Theatre of the Absurd.

ROSS I hear a kind of … rushing sound, like a … wooooosh!, or … wings, or something. MARTIN It’s probably the Eumenides.

Honey: I know these people ...

I am a doctor. A.B.... M.A.... PH.D....ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.I'm really very mistrustful.

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

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf mean who's afraid of the big bad wolf…who's afraid of living without false illusions

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

...who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension...

Creativity is magic, don't examine it too closely.

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.