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

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

If the playwright is strong enough to hold on to reasonable objectivity in the face of either hostility or praise, he'll do his work the way he was going to anyway.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

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.