I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

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

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.

Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.