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.

I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.

As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.