A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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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.
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
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Oh, Mother, you go home too early!
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One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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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.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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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.
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