Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications of what I've done before, what I'm going to do, what other people think about my work, the failure or success of the previous play. I'm stuck with a new reality that I've got to create.

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

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.

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

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.