264 Quotes by Edward Albee

All of my plays are about people missing the boat, closing down too young, coming to the end of their lives with regret at things not done, as opposed to things done. II find most people spend too much time living as if they’re never going to die.

Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.

I swear, if you existed I’d divorce you.

I don’t think I’ve ever written about me. I’m not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

I’m not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

Alright... what do you want me to say? Do you want me to say it’s funny, so you can contradict me and say it’s sad? Or do you want me to say it’s sad so you can turn around and say no, it’s funny. You can play that damn little game any way you want to, you know!

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

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you’re starting at a huge disadvantage.

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.