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

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

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.

I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because in the theater one is self-conscious enough without planning ahead or wondering about the thematic relation from one play to the next. One hopes that one is developing, and writing interestingly, and that's where it should end, I think.

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

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