In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.