I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it” — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.' — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ...… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
