The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.

Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.