. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

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

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.