Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly

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

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.