I discover that I am thinking about a play, which is the first awareness I have that a new play is forming. When I'm aware of the play forming in my head, it's already at a certain degree in development.

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.

One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.

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

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.