Any definition which limits us is deplorable.
Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there’s no point in doing it.
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
Progress is a set of assumptions.
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
Death is release, if you’ve lived all right.
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.
Art is nowhere near as dangerous as it should be.
There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don’t put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
Every monster was a man first.
First, I’ll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll just kill him.
Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
I said I was impressed, Martha. I’m beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?
You want to dance with me, angel tits?
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are.