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.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

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.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.