I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of reflecting the public taste instead of creating it. Your responsibility is to the public consciousness, not to the public view of itself.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

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.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.