Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'

All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they not have anything to do with anything, that they be our never-never land; and if we demand this same function of our live theatre, what will be left of the visual-auditory arts - save the dance (in which nobody talks) and music (to which nobody listens)?

I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.