Edward Albee Quotes

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

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

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

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

I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga — it will all equal itself out... You can't involve yourself with the vicissitudes of fashion or critical response. I'm fairly confident that my work is going to be around for a while. I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

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

I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves; independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, are the teaching emotion. And what is gained is loss.

Honey: I know these people ...

There's no limit to you, is there?

The world is a zoo

I dance like the wind.

I swear if you existed I'd divorce you.

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

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

You want to dance with me, angel tits?