The task of the playwright is to create a world that is both familiar and strange, a world that reflects our own but also challenges it.

The most important victories are the ones that come after the toughest defeats.

成功不是终点，失败不是致命的：重要的是继续前进的勇气。

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.