I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.

It's true, I don't like the real world.

Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves.

Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.

My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.