I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.

A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.