I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's merits or demerits. They must search their own souls, or whatever.

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.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

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

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.

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