The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.

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.

It always seems to me better to slough off the answer to a question that I consider to be a terrible invasion of privacy - the kind of privacy that a writer must keep for himself.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.