Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.

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 best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

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

The brain heals the past like an injury.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.