No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

I have no ideas before I write a play. I have them when I have finished it ... I believe that aritistic creation is spontaneous. It is for me.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It …