The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

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

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

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.

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.