The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

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.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

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

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.