I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that when I do finally sit down at the typewriter, and write out my plays with a speed that seems to horrify all my detractors and half of my well-wishers, that there's no work involved. It is hard work, and one is doing all the work oneself.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

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

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

Art should never try to be popular.

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.