I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of a year and half when I only wrote half a play. If it depresses some critics that I seem prolific, well, that's their problem as much as mine.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

Why we are here is an impenetrable question.

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

I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.

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 suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.