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.

If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good and well enough written, should not be knocked down because of its approach to its subject.

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

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

There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being faced with indifference or hostility is discouraging, and it may be that success - acceptance if it's too quick, too lightning-quick - can turn the heads of some people.

Usually, the way I write is to sit down at a typewriter after that year or so of what passes for thinking, and I write a first draft quite rapidly. Read it over. Make a few pencil corrections, where I think I've got the rhythms wrong in the speeches, for example, and then retype the whole thing. And in the retyping I discover that maybe one or two more speeches will come in. One or two more things will happen, but not much.

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.