It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

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.

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

Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.

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

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.