A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.

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.