264 Quotes by Edward Albee

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

Art has an obligation to offend.

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn’t so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you’ll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

But the landlady is a fat, ugly, mean, stupid, unwashed, misanthropic, cheap, drunken bag of garbage. And you may have noticed that I very seldom use profanity, so I can’t describe her as well as I might.

Awww, ’tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads.

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

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.

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