As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

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

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

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

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.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.