It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.

The idea that all the people locked up in mental hospitals are sane while all the people walking about are mad is merely a literary cliche, put about by people who should be locked up. I assure you there is not much in it. Taken as a whole, the sane are out there the sick are in here. For example you are in here because you have delusions that sane people are put in mental hospitals.

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."