A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays-to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash.