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

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.

Sometimes I think the experience of a play is finished for me when I finish writing it. If it weren't for the need to make a living, I don't know whether I'd have the plays produced.

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.

A lot of people are confused by "hello." A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn't be confused by.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

What happens in a play is determined to a certain extent by what I thought might be interesting to have happen before I invented the characters, before they started taking over what happened, because they are three-dimensional individuals, and I cannot tell them what to do. Once I give them their identity and their nature, they start writing the play.