Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.

You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.

There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.