Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

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

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.

You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.

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