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Pathos Truly Is The Mode For The Pessimist. But Tragedy Requires A Nicer Balance Between What Is Possible And What Is Impossible. And It Is Curious, Although Edifying, That The Plays We Revere, Century After Century, Are The Tragedies. In Them, And In Them Alone, Lies The Belief-optimistic, If You Will, In The Perfectibility Of Man.

I'm A Fatalist.... I Consider I Am Rejected In Principle. My Work Is And, Through My Work, I Am. If It's Accepted, It's Miraculous Or The Result Of A Misunderstanding.

The Mission Of The Theatre, After All, Is To Change, To Raise The Consciousness Of People To Their Human Possibilities.

The American Dream Is The Largely Unacknowledged Screen In Front Of Which All American Writing Plays Itself Out.

The Task Of The Real Intellectual Consists Of Analyzing Illusions In Order To Discover Their Causes.