If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre].

The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this is genetic, of course, but I think it is in part that they worry so for us, care so much.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

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

All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.