The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

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.

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

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

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

Art has an obligation to offend

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