If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

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.

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.