A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.