Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

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

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's merits or demerits. They must search their own souls, or whatever.

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.