A playwright lives in an occupied country: And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write : were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion w…

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks ... on screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted …

This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a g…

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish …

What I intended to do was to burn a half dozen of my books and keep warm, so that I could write my story, but when I looked around for titles to burn, I couldn…