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.

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.

A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.

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