Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

A play's an interpretation. It is not a report. And that is the beginning of its poetry because, in order to interpret, you have to distort toward a symbolic construction of what happened, and as that distortion takes place, you begin to leave out and overemphasize and consequently deliver up life as a unity rather than as a chaos, and any such attempt, the more intense it is, the more poetic it becomes.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

A suicide kills two people, that's what it's for!

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.