Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

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

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

Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.