The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.

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

If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good and well enough written, should not be knocked down because of its approach to its subject.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

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.

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

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.