My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.

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.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

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

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

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

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.