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.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.

I talk out the lines as I write them.

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.