You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

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.

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

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.

I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.