To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

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

A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.

One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to make a living, I don't know whether I'd have the plays produced.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?