Why we are here is an impenetrable question.

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.

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

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

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.

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.