Edward Albee Quotes

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

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.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.