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

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.

Be liked and you will never want.

Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back.

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

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.