Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

I've seen an awful lot of plays that I'd read before they were put into production and been shocked by what's happened to them. In the attempt to make them straightforward and commercially successful, a lot of things go out the window.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.