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].

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.

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

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

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.