American playwright (1928-2016)
Aloneness is inevitable in being human. People cannot accept this. They should be aware of it and use it. It heightens your perceptions.
EDWARD ALBEE
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The Daily Mail, 1969
The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.
EDWARD ALBEE
Stretching My Mind
Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
EDWARD ALBEE
Stretching My Mind
A play is fiction -- and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
EDWARD ALBEE
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 1966
Every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
EDWARD ALBEE
The New York Times, Sep. 18, 1966
I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
EDWARD ALBEE
The Dramatists Guild Quarterly, 1996