Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

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

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.

First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.

When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.