Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

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.

I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.

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.

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.