American playwright (1928-2016)
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
EDWARD ALBEE
address to New York Cultural League, May 6, 1969
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
The Daily Mail, 1969
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