A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.

For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but we all long, I think, to see the plays fleshed out on stage and I'm exactly like that. Yes, I'm not satisfied until I actually see it on stage.

I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.

The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.