When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.

One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

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

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