As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.

Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die.

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?