I can't remember what my first script was.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.