I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

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

All good art is an indiscretion.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.