Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Art should never try to be popular.

Every monster was a man first.

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

Why we are here is an impenetrable question.

Writing has got to be an act of discovery. Finding out things about what one is writing about.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

I created myself, and I'll attack anybody I feel like.