Edward Albee

MARTIN (Serious) Am I too young for Alzheimer’s? STEVIE Probably. Isn’t it nice to be too young for something?

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

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

The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

People can't have everything they want. You should know that; it's a rule; people can have some of the things they want, but they can't have everything.

Now, here is what I had wanted to happen: I had tried to love, and I had tried to kill, and both had been unsuccessful by themselves.

ROSS I hear a kind of … rushing sound, like a … wooooosh!, or … wings, or something. MARTIN It’s probably the Eumenides.

I dance like the wind.

George who is out somewhere there in the dark... George who is good to me, and whom I revile; who understands me, and whom I push off; who can make me laugh, and I choke it back in my throat; who can hold me, at night, so that it's warm, and whom I will bite so there's blood; who keeps learning the games we play as quickly as I can change the rules; who can make me happy and I do not wish to be happy, and yes I do wish to be happy. George and Martha: sad, sad, sad... whom I will not forgive for having come to rest; for having seen me and having said: yes; this will do; who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving me and must be punished for it. George and Martha: sad, sad, sad... who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension...

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

There's no limit to you, is there?

I swear if you existed I'd divorce you.

Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger — without even knowing it is happening to you — of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

Knowing it — knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.

Addiction is a repeated temporary...stilling. I am concerned with peace...not mere relief.