How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.

Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.

You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.

I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.