Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of what it's about. The work of art must be judged by how well it succeeds in its intention.

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.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

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.