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

What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before I invented the characters, before they started taking over what happened, because they are three-dimensional individuals, and I cannot tell them what to do. Once I give them their identity and their nature, they start writing the play.

I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Every monster was a man first.

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