The American Dream & The Zoo Story Quotes

“It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.”
― Edward Albee, The American Dream & The Zoo Story

“I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves; independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, are the teaching emotion. And what is gained is loss.”
― Edward Albee, The American Dream & The Zoo Story

“People can't have everything they want. You should know that; it's a rule; people can have some of the things they want, but they can't have everything.”
― Edward Albee, The American Dream & The Zoo Story

“... what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.”
― Edward Albee, The American Dream & The Zoo Story

“But the landlady is a fat, ugly, mean, stupid, unwashed, misanthropic, cheap, drunken bag of garbage. And you may have noticed that I very seldom use profanity, so I can't describe her as well as I might.”
― Edward Albee , The American Dream & The Zoo Story

“Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.”
― Edward Albee, The American Dream & The Zoo Story