I'm two years older than him, and I cannot fathom living like that.

He gives an account of one time he was shot in the leg and in the side and he ends up holding down his post through the night until he is relieved in the morning.

It's really sad for me to read, actually.

Edward Albee acutely understands the function of art in a free society. As America's premier living playwright, he is also an incisive critic of American culture, and has dedicated much of his life to teaching the craft and art of writing for the stage.

We are living in a culture of silence. Even though [some form of sexual assault] occurs 23 times in an hour in our country, even though it happens that often, we don't yet live in a society where survivors can comfortably talk about what they have been through.

It's a place to become unstressed. People like to be where there are living things. Plants. Fish. Birds.