It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

You want to dance with me, angel tits?

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

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

In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive. A number of plays by playwrights who were thought very highly of then - they were very bad playwrights - were highly praised because their themes were intellectually and politically proper. This intellectual morass is very dangerous, it seems to me. A form of censorship.