A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

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

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this is genetic, of course, but I think it is in part that they worry so for us, care so much.

True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.