Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

A playwright... is... the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.