A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?

I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress