It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.

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.

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

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

As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.