I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to make a living, I don't know whether I'd have the plays produced.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.