The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

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

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

Children always turn to the light.