Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.

The one living playwright I admire without any reservation whatsoever is Samuel Beckett. I have funny feelings about almost all the others.

As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.