You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?.

A playwright has a responsibility in his society not to aid it, or comfort it, but to comment and criticize it..

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be….

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly..

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 ….

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere..

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..

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?.

Art has an obligation to offend.

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth..

When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to ….

I write to find out what I'm talking about..

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

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop..

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going th….

The condition of the theater is always an accurate measure of the cultural health of a nation. A play always exists in the present tense (if it is a ….

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter..

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians.

You gotta have swine to show you where the truffles are..

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely..