37 Quotes by Israel Horovitz

I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.

It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.