I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

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

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.

I discover that I am thinking about a play, which is the first awareness I have that a new play is forming. When I'm aware of the play forming in my head, it's already at a certain degree in development.

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.