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

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.

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.

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.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.