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

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.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

Why we are here is an impenetrable question.

Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.