Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. 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. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.

The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

No one enjoys being equal.

Everyone needs money. That's why they call it money