To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.

Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.