The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility for a play about two people, and suddenly the officer is finding all manner of exotic contraband like the nature of God and identity, and while he can't deny that they're there, he can't for the life of him remember putting them there. In the end, a play is not the product of an idea; an idea is the product of a play.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

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.

Death is the ultimate negative.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.