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

You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.

The mission of the theatre, after all, is to change, to raise the consciousness of people to their human possibilities.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.