The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.