The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.