First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that when I do finally sit down at the typewriter, and write out my plays with a speed that seems to horrify all my detractors and half of my well-wishers, that there's no work involved. It is hard work, and one is doing all the work oneself.

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

My sense of reality and logic is different from most people's.