The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

Any definition which limits us is deplorable.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.