Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

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

Progress is a set of assumptions.