Edward Albee

Dramatist

1928-03-12

Quotes by Edward Albee

• ... what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

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• Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

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• What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it

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• I write to find out what I'm talking about.

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

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• I write to find out what I'm talking about.

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• Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

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

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• ... what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

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• What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it

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• He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.

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• I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

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• You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

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• Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

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• Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

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