I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre].

There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours - things that have less to do with his artistic work than have to do with the critical and aesthetic environment - that perhaps he does have to worry about whether or not he is writing too fast. But then also, perhaps he should worry about getting as many plays on as possible before the inevitable ax falls.