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

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

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

Every monster was a man first.

The characters' lives have gone on before the moment you chose to have the action of the play begin. And their lives are going to go on after you have lowered the final curtain on the play, unless you've killed them off.

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