Edward Albee Quotes

Edward Albee — American Dramatist born on March 12, 1928,

Edward Franklin Albee III is an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. His works are often considered as well-crafted, realistic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Jean Genet. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of theatricality and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent the post-war American theatre in the early 1960s. Albee continues to experiment in works such as The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?... (wikipedia)

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

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.

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

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

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.