I don't feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.

The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.

If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of a year and half when I only wrote half a play. If it depresses some critics that I seem prolific, well, that's their problem as much as mine.

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

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.