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

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.

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

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?!

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

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