One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.

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?

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

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

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Art has an obligation to offend

I discover that I am thinking about a play, which is the first awareness I have that a new play is forming. When I'm aware of the play forming in my head, it's already at a certain degree in development.