The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.

A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play. Where do you end that? Where the characters seem to come to a pause... where they seem to want to stop - rather like, I would think, the construction of a piece of music.

I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the theater one is self-conscious enough without planning ahead or wondering about the thematic relation from one play to the next. One hopes that one is developing, and writing interestingly, and that's where it should end, I think.

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.