Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.