Israel Horovitz Quotations

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

I've done nothing with my life but write plays.

I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.