I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.

As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.

Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television and our movies that they not have anything to do with anything, that they be our never-never land; and if we demand this same function of our live theatre, what will be left of the visual-auditory arts - save the dance (in which nobody talks) and music (to which nobody listens)?