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

Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.

You want to dance with me, angel tits?

Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

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.

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

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.