Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

Every monster was a man first.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

There's always the danger that there are so damn many things that a playwright can examine in this society of ours - things that have less to do with his artistic work than have to do with the critical and aesthetic environment - that perhaps he does have to worry about whether or not he is writing too fast. But then also, perhaps he should worry about getting as many plays on as possible before the inevitable ax falls.