I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine the structure of the play. By which is meant, I suspect, only that the unconscious mind has done its work so thoroughly that the play just has to be filtered through the conscious mind. But there's work to be done - and discovery to be made.

I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

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

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

Why we are here is an impenetrable question.