Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
Art has an obligation to offend
There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.
The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.