Progress is a set of assumptions.

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.