All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.

I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.

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.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.