You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.

I do think, or rather I sense that there is a relationship - at least in my own work - between a dramatic structure, the form and sound and shape of a play, and the equivalent structure in music. Both deal with sound, of course, and also with idea, theme.

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.