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 which you could observe and walk away from.

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

I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know...

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

You can sit there and have a universal experience, of fear, of anger, of tears, of love, and I discovered that its the audience, really, that is doing the acti…