To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.

I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.

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

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.

Art has an obligation to offend

I don't set out to write a play a year. Sometimes I've written two plays a year. There was a period of a year and half when I only wrote half a play. If it depresses some critics that I seem prolific, well, that's their problem as much as mine.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.