There are only two things to write about: life and death.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

When I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a lot. Then, when I was nineteen I wrote a couple hundred pages of another novel, which wasn't very good either. I was still determined to be a writer. And since I was a writer, and here I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good and well enough written, should not be knocked down because of its approach to its subject.