Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

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.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

Art has an obligation to offend