The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.