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

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of a year and half when I only wrote half a play. If it depresses some critics that I seem prolific, well, that's their problem as much as mine.

Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape of them was pretty much determined by the original work. With my own plays, the only changes, aside from taking a speech out here, putting one in there (if I thought I dwelled on a point a little too long or didn't make it explicit enough), are very minor; but even though they're very minor - having to do with the inability of actors or the unwillingness of the director to go along with me - I've always regretted them.

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