In oratory the will must predominate.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.