There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

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.

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.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.