The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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.