Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.

If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre].

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.

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.

Why we are here is an impenetrable question.

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