My essential identity is that of a writer.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

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.

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

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.

My essential identity is that of a writer.

A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.