He's liked, but he's not well liked.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens rather than from fellow Christians. At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem folk believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand. To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.