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.

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

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

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

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.