I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.

-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

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

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.

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