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

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

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.

When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.

To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.

I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that when I do finally sit down at the typewriter, and write out my plays with a speed that seems to horrify all my detractors and half of my well-wishers, that there's no work involved. It is hard work, and one is doing all the work oneself.

A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.