In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

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

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.