264 Quotes by Edward Albee

Death is release, if you've lived all right.

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

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

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.

A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.

I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.

I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.

Why we are here is an impenetrable question.

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.