I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.

- Israel Horovitz

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.

- Israel Horovitz

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.

- Israel Horovitz

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

- Israel Horovitz

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

- Israel Horovitz

Radical politics tend to be simple minded.

- Israel Horovitz

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

- Israel Horovitz

My dream is to have a small company in France.

- Israel Horovitz

My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.

- Israel Horovitz

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

- Israel Horovitz

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

- Israel Horovitz

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

- Israel Horovitz

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

- Israel Horovitz

I was not to the manor born.

- Israel Horovitz

I parle Francais like a Spanish cow.

- Israel Horovitz

I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.

- Israel Horovitz

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

- Israel Horovitz

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

- Israel Horovitz

I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.

- Israel Horovitz

I don't direct the plays of others.

- Israel Horovitz