I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.

A playwright, especially a playwright whose work deals very directly with an audience, perhaps he should pay some attention to the nature of the audience response - not necessarily to learn anything about his craft, but as often as not merely to find out about the temper of the time, what is being tolerated, what is being permitted.

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.