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

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.

I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

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.