Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.

How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

Everyone talks about America, this great country. You hear, "I'm more patriotic than you are. No, I'm more patriotic!" But how few people know the history of this country and how we came into being. That's the part that just amazed me.