Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.

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.

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

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 American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.