A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.