Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

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.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.

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.