The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
Edward Albee

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
Edward Albee

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
Edward Albee

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
Edward Albee

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.
Edward Albee

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
Edward Albee

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
Edward Albee