Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

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.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.