When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

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

There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

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.

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.