264 Quotes by Edward Albee

It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

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

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

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.

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

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

... 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.

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

What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it