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

When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.

Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody's encouraged to want less, you'll end up with less.

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

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.