I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

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

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.

A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.