He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

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

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

I would be twenty before I learned how to be fifteen, thirty before I knew what it meant to be twenty, and now at seventy-two I have to stop myself from thinking like a man of fifty who has plenty of time ahead.