Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.

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.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.