The success of a play, especially one's first success, is somewhat like pushing against a door which is suddenly opened that was always securely shut until then. For myself, the experience was invigorating. It suddenly seemed that the audience was a mass of blood relations, and I sensed a warmth in the world that had not been there before. It made it possible to dream of daring more and risking more.

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

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

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.