264 Quotes by Edward Albee

Honey: I know these people ...

Addiction is a repeated temporary...stilling. I am concerned with peace...not mere relief.

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

George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?Martha: I am, George. I am.

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.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Writers have this schizophrenic ability to both participate in their lives and, at the same time, observe themselves participating in their lives.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

Violence! Violence!