The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

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.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

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

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.