愛德華·阿爾比
荒誕派戲劇大師
The theatre is a place where we can confront our demons in public.
劇院是一個我們可以在公眾面前面對內心惡魔的地方。
I think that plays are there to disturb, not to reassure.
我認為戲劇的存在是為了擾亂，而不是為了安撫。
The theatre is the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
戲劇是人類能夠與他人分享作為人類的意義的最直接方式。
The purpose of art is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
藝術的目的是讓舒適的人不安，讓不安的人舒適。
I don't write plays to be liked. I write plays to make people think.
我寫劇本不是為了被喜歡，而是為了讓人們思考。
The function of the writer is to disturb the sleep of the world.
A play is fiction—and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
戲劇是虛構的——而虛構是將事實提煉成真理。
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
劇院是一個你有時間為人們的問題留出時間的地方，而如果這些人來你辦公室求職，你會把他們拒之門外。
I write plays because I have a strong moralistic streak.
我寫劇本是因為我有強烈的道德傾向。
If you have no enemies, you're dead.
如果你沒有敵人，那你就已經(jīng)死了。