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.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

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

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.

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

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.