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.

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.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.